Diplomacy & Crisis News

There is growing evidence that the region’s economic prospects are dimming.

De façon captivante, deux décisions majeures viennent d'engager la politique culturelle française sur des voies qui méritent une attention soutenue : le projet de loi relatif à la liberté de création, à l'architecture et au patrimoine, adopté le 6 octobre 2015, et quelques articles de la loi portant (...) / France, Art, Culture, Identité culturelle, Politique, Région - 2015/12

Manifestations contre la corruption, démission de l'ancien président Otto Pérez Molina, installation d'une commission de l'Organisation des Etats américains (OEA) sous la pression de la rue : au Guatemala, l'année 2015 a été marquée par le retour des revendications populaires. Mais l'entrée du premier (...) / Guatemala, Capitalisme, Fiscalité, Inégalités, Mouvement de contestation, Politique, Amérique centrale, Néolibéralisme - 2015/12

If it is to be saved, the government needs to start thinking about working people.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has welcomed the progress made by the people of the Comoros in preparations for presidential elections and polls for island governors on Sunday.

The United Nations top official today called on Member States to build inclusive societies free of discrimination, in which all people can live with dignity and opportunities to improve their lives, as he observed the World Day of Social Justice.

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Washington was also trying to protect Tunisia — and help keep the Arab Spring’s only success story from going off the rails.

Addressing billions of illicit financial outflows from Africa is imperative as the continent needs domestic resources for its development, said the former President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, who chairs a United Nations panel on the issue, urging the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) and partner institutions to elaborate relevant action plans.

Following a humanitarian breakthrough in delivering aid to a Syrian town inaccessible for more than 18 months, the United Nations food relief agency is now planning possible air-drops for 200,000 people in the Deir ez-Zor area besieged by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, or ISIL/Da’esh.

With senior United Nations officials warning of escalating inter-communal violence and rampant human rights violations in South Sudan, the Security Council today strongly condemned all attacks and provocations against civilians and the UN by armed actors, and called for calm on all sides.

The fracturing of Afghanistan’s body politic looms. Can anyone stop it?

Two unnamed complainants asked a German court to reverse a ban on animal sex. The court threw out the claim.

A court order compelling Apple to help the FBI unlock one of its phones has sparked a heated debate over privacy and national security.

The United States' criticisms of China in the South China Sea are misleading -- likely intentionally so.

These obscure Kurdish fighters just took responsibility for the this week's Ankara bombing.

Once dismissed as an out-of-touch technocrat, Alain Juppé has reinvented himself as France's voice of moderation — and the French love him for it.

Xi Jinping continues to emphasize the need for Party control of Chinese media -- a worrying sign for journalists.

Turkish authorities have released Rami Jarrah, a Syrian journalist based in Gaziantep, but have not yet provided a reason for his arrest.

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